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Thanks to comicbooksplus.com I was able to check out the interior. Here's a picture of Silver Streak himself!

Captain Battle is fairly obscure nowadays.

I'm inclined to agree with you, Sqeggs. The character in Blue Beetle's had looks like he could be any Nazi officer. I checked the stories in the book to see whether Hitler appeared in any of those, but he does not. http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=20848

Weren't those books in holders from another company? A cynical person might think someone had bid them up as a marketing gimmick in order to increase the value of that brand. ....I had wondered if that may have put a damper on the sales.... but it didn't seem to. Did you add any to your collection ? GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u I didn't pick anything up. I've been trying to sell a comic through CLink, and unless I get lucky with a lowball bid, I'm not I'm not going to buy any books until that one sells. The books I was watching all sold for much more than I was prepared to pay.

Weren't those books in holders from another company? A cynical person might think someone had bid them up as a marketing gimmick in order to increase the value of that brand.

Ingels is my favorite* as well, but I don't own a single Ingels cover. Maybe I need to rectify that. *clear favorite if we're talking horror; if we're talking sci-fi, too, it gets tougher; Wally Wood would be right up there.

Ingels is my favorite* as well, but I don't own a single Ingels cover. Maybe I need to rectify that. *clear favorite if we're talking horror; if we're talking sci-fi, too, it gets tougher; Wally Wood would be right up there.

Great cover! I narrowly missed picking up a nice raw copy (possibly the Pennsylvania copy) on eBay a few months ago. (I hesitated too long, as usual.)

None of mine have ever worked. They've all been for fairly tough books that are somewhat low dollar value: Submariner 29, 7.0/OW—W or better; Phantom Stranger 5, 7.0/OW—W or better; Muggsy Mouse 1, 9.0/OW—W or better; Starstream 1—4, 9.8/W.

It looks like a fun title!

Here's a link to the English version if you didn't already look it up yourself: http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=20716

There's a story called "Captain Marvel Battles the Marine Invasion" in Whiz Comics 115 (November 1949). I believe that's the same story.

The site looks great. That Rockford 9.4 Hit Comics 24 is a pretty sweet book. I'll bet that doesn't last long. http://www.bedrockcity.com/store/product/77953/Hit-Comics-%2324/

I think Beerbohm said the G on the San Francisco books stood for Gilboy (the distributor), right? So is it fair to say this book was purchased in the same part of the country? The G does look similar to the G on some books that have the Reilly designation on the label. How much geographical area would a distributor like Gilboy have covered? Does anyone know how many different comic book distributors were active during the '40s nationwide?

I thought—briefly—about attempting something like that, but it would be impossible to do (with my budget) without making it my only priority. -There aren't many Denver or Kansas City books I could afford. -I'm more focused on page quality than on grade, and the Allentown, Denver, Northford, & Rockford books have lousy page quality for the most part. -There aren't that many Carson City or Vancouver books that would fit my collection well. ...etc. I decided it would be a Herculean task, and I hadn't even considered including books based on provenance. I wasn't worried about whether the pedigree was noted on the label, either. I do have a Diamond Run book with a label notation, but that won't last forever: eventually I'll have to get the book re-slabbed in order to get fresh microchamber paper—if I don't sell the book first, that is.

Does it actually exist? No listing on GCD. It's in Overstreet, but I think he has a few phantom books in there for copyright purposes. I have no idea whether it was one of Bob's intentional phantom books, but I'm guessing that it doesn't exist.

G.A. tor: Have you ever owned or even seen a copy of Adventures of the Dover Boys #2? It has a Scarcity Index No. of 5 in Gerber, but there's no picture of it. I'm fairly sure I've never seen one.

It's easier said than done in the heat of a bidding war, but people should buy the book, not the label. (I may disown that comment should I ever try to sell an overgraded book .) The Vancouver Namora #1 might be the most desirable book in the collection (maybe not, considering how high the Ellery Queen went this year), but it shouldn't have been slabbed as a 9.8. It sold for $13,800 in 2006 because somebody bid on the label, but then it sold for $7,767.50 in 2009—a year when comics sold very well, generally—probably because the bidders actually looked at the book, which should not have been graded higher than 9.4. http://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/namora-1-vancouver-pedigree-timely-1948-cgc-nm-mt-98-white-pages/a/7002-91179.s The Mile High Pep 53 was slabbed as a 9.6 despite significant staple stress, a dull lower left corner, and a what looks like ding on the upper corner. I'd have called it a 9.2. http://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/pep-comics-53-mile-high-pedigree-mlj-1945-cgc-nm-96-white-pages/a/7007-91192.s#Photo

There's something in statistics called an outlier. Outliers are not completely ignored, but they're looked at with circumspection. In other words, if you have many data points that show copies selling at that level, you have a trend. If you have a bunch of copies selling for 3 figures and one copy selling for 4 figures, the 4-figure data point is an outlier. You certainly can't assume anything about the value of a book based on a single transaction other than this: there was one person in the world willing to pay that amount on that date and a second person willing to pay almost as much. I personally think it's unlikely that the buyer will ever break even on that book.

My take: ASM#300 is in a significant bubble. IH#181 probably is too, but since it's a much earlier book, I don't have as good a feel for what the existing supply is like. I'm certain there are massive quantities of high-grade ASM#300 still out there raw. That's another one of those books that could spiral all the way down to a nominal value plus slabbing costs (say $30 for a slabbed 9.8). I'm not suggesting it will happen overnight. I'm talking 10 years out, give or take.

Your estimate of 50,000 copies is probably low. I was buying books off the rack in the late 80s and, although I stopped before NM98 hit the stands, I remember that it was one of the "hot" titles, one that everybody was bagging and boarding--like Howard the Duck before it, like X-Factor, like Cerebus the Aardvark (which never ran over 30,000 copies per month). Not only are there very likely massive quantities still out there raw, there are very likely massive quantities in very high grades (9.8, 9.9, 10.0). 10 years from now a slabbed 9.8 will be a $30 book. Anything below 9.8 will have no value except as a reading copy. I don't think it's a bubble that's going to "pop," though. It's more like a tire with a slow leak.

After reading this thread, now I'm worried about my slabs.

There aren't too many Johnny Craig covers I especially like, but that's one of them. Nice pick up!